on 24/11/2008 19:15 Michael J Gruber said the following:
> Andriy Gapon venit, vidit, dixit 24.11.2008 13:56:
>> on 16/10/2008 11:07 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>>> I did the following:
>>> 1. mirror svn repository using svnsync
>>> 2. clone the mirror with git-svn --use-svnsync-props and some tweaking[*]
>>> 3. run git svn info in the clone
>>> 4. get error "Unable to determine upstream SVN information from working
>>> tree history"
>>>
>>> git svn log and git svn rebase do not work either.
>>> git log does work.
>>>
>>> I have git version 1.6.0.2 (from FreeBSD ports).
>>> [*] About the tweaking - I manually massaged config file to get the
>>> branches I was interested in, so .git/config is this:
>>> [core]
>>>         repositoryformatversion = 0
>>>         filemode = true
>>>         bare = false
>>>         logallrefupdates = true
>>> [svn-remote "svn"]
>>>         useSvnsyncProps = 1
>>>         url = file:///system/devel/svn/base
>>>         fetch = head:refs/remotes/trunk
>>>         fetch = stable/6:refs/remotes/stable_6
>>>         fetch = stable/7:refs/remotes/stable_7
>>>         fetch = releng/6.3:refs/remotes/releng_6_3
>>>         fetch = releng/6.4:refs/remotes/releng_6_4
>>>         fetch = releng/7.0:refs/remotes/releng_7_0
>>>         fetch = release/6.3.0:refs/remotes/release_6_3_0
>>>         fetch = release/7.0.0:refs/remotes/release_7_0_0
>>>
>>> This is .git/svn/.metadata:
>>> ; This file is used internally by git-svn
>>> ; You should not have to edit it
>>> [svn-remote "svn"]
>>>         reposRoot = file:///system/devel/svn/base
>>>         uuid = ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f
>>>         svnsync-uuid = ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f
>>>         svnsync-url = svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
>>>
>>> So you can see the original svn repository URL.
>>>
>>> git log reports svn info like the following:
>>> git-svn-id: svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/7@183898
>>> ccf9f872-aa2e-dd11-9fc8-001c23d0bc1f
>>>
>>> It seems that the problem is that the code in find_by_url() and/or
>>> read_all_remotes() subroutines (in git-svn.perl) are not aware of
>>> svnsync and do not realize an URL in logs and URL in svn-remote are
>>> different.
>>> BTW, I see that there is some special svm logic in read_all_remotes.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for any help in advance.
>>>
>> Anyone?
>> I wonder if this is my local problem/misconfiguration or an issue with
>> git-svn.
> 
> Same happens here, so it's a general issue ;)
> 
> I think I encountered that before and ended up experimenting with
> git-svn cloning from a svnsync source until I found the final config,
> with which I git-svn cloned directly from upstream, so that I had to
> wait only twice.

I hacked together an ugly patch that replaces svm support with snvsync
support. This works for me, not sure if it will be useful in general.


-- 
Andriy Gapon